Counselling - Parenting: Parenting Resources

Shows parents how to identify their children's strengths and weaknesses to determine their individual learning styles and help them succeed in school. Discusses eight fundamental systems of learning.

Gives suggestions for a systematic program that motivates children to succeed academically.

Presents the authors' comments on parenting, which were originally made when they were children, and includes their reflections on them as adults and parents as well as surveys to help readers evaluate their relationships with their children.

Anthony Wolf applies his philosophy and humor to a wide variety of everyday situations, showing both the way interactions tend to go (not so well) and why, then offers parents a script and guidance on how to achieve the most satisfying outcomes.

Explains how children can use the techniques of mindful awareness to manage stress and lead happier, more balanced lives, with strategies, activities, songs, games, and fables for teaching children the principles of mindful awareness.

A purpose of this book is to prevent harmful misunderstandings about learning disorders. The book aims primarily to help such children gain a realistic insight into their personal strengths and weaknesses.

Provides simple rules for maintaining control, not only of your child but also of your own self when dealing with children.

A guide for parents and educators to help tweens navigate their middle school years

Offers an alternative approach to parenting and discipline and discusses five essential elements necessary for children to thrive, including unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth opportunities.

Provides an overview of Sensory Integration Dysfunction, discussing how it affects children's behavior; and features criteria and guidance for getting a diagnosis and treatment, as well as advice on how parents can deal with the problem at home.

Contains twenty articles that provide a variety of perspectives on parenting issues, discussing discipline choices, different forms of parenting, and parents liability for their children's actions.

Based on her clinical experience, a psychiatrist presents a valuable guide that helps parents and children navigate the emotional and psychological minefields of family dynamics.

Examines the role of parents as educators, suggesting ways to support a child's early reading and writing attempts, describing methods to decipher math expectations, and offering advice on what teachers want to see in children's book reports; and including advice on home-based instruction in imagination and manners.

Provides advice for parents on how to raise respectful children; exploring effective and noneffective parenting styles, teaching respect at home, stressing purpose, setting boundaries, discipline, shielding children from disrespectful messages, instilling gratefulness, and listening.

A parent's guide to promoting the independence of teenagers by building their executive skills--the fundamental abilities needed to be organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

Contains 109 conversation starters to help parents discuss important issues with their children.

A parenting guide covering every developmental stage, providing strategies to help change children's behavior, decrease the stress in family relations, and more.

Lays out the current scientific understandings of mental disorders and articulates new ways to realistically, compassionately and productively help children grow into responsible well-adjusted adults.

Children become the messages they get the most. And as a parent, your words, attitudes, and actions are constantly sending your children messages, creating their earliest ideas about themselves, others, and the world around them. Now, parenting expert Dr. Jim Taylor describes the vital opportunity you have to shape your children (even when they may not appear to be listening) and guides you to answer this crucial question: "How can I be sure I'm sending the healthiest messages?" If you consciously send your children the right messages, the benefits for them will be profound.

Advises parents to let their children experience disappointment, frustration, and failure, giving them an opportunity to learn from mistakes, and grow up to become successful, resilent and self-reliant adults.